Word: cunningness
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It was a match of professional speed amateur deception. Lean young Norbert Setzler, one of the New York Racquet Club's five professionals, depends on sizzling forehand that shoots down the side of the court, dies at the back wall. His opponent, David Milford, a British schoolteacher at Maryborough...
And were the good Bishop more familiar with modern fox-hunting he would know that preserving foxes, rather than killing them, is the major concern of most organized hunts. In America, where earth stopping is not practised, when a fox is hard pressed he goes to ground,- (''hole...
But tutoring schools should not degenerate into "passing C" factories. They should not be expected or allowed to push the lazy, weak or stupid through Harvard at any price. They should not put a premium on animal cunning in getting through examinations. Lastly, they should never, under any conditions, be...
Me: "Yes, and the cunning of the men who pretend to have the ball but who haven't appeals to me. In Australia, we call that trick "selling your opponent a dummy."
"And in this campaign another herring turns up. In former years it has been British or French-and a variety of other things. But this year it is Russian. Desperate in mood, angry at failure, cunning in purpose, individuals and groups are seeking to make Communism an issue in an...